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LEONARD WELLS VOLK (1828-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 195 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WELLS See also:VOLK (1828-1895)  , See also:American sculptor, was See also:born at Wellstown (now See also:Wells), See also:Hamilton See also:county, New See also:York, on the 7th of See also:November 1828 .. He first followed the See also:trade of a See also:marble cutter with his See also:father at See also:Pittsfield, See also:Massachusetts . In 1848 he opened a studio at St See also:Louis, See also:Missouri, and in 1855 was sent by his wife's See also:cousin, See also:Stephen A . See also:Douglas, to See also:Rome to study . Returning to See also:America in 1857, he settled in See also:Chicago, where he helped to establish an See also:Academy of See also:Design and was for eight years its See also:head . Among his See also:principal See also:works are the Douglas See also:monument at Chicago and the Soldiers' and Sailors' monument at See also:Rochester, New York, and statues of See also:President See also:Lincoln and Stephen A . Douglas (in the See also:Illinois See also:State Capitol at See also:Springfield, See also:Ill.), and of See also:General See also:James See also:Shields (in Statuary See also:Hall, Capitol, See also:Washington), Elihu B . See also:Washburn, Zachariah See also:Chandler and See also:David See also:Davis . In 186o he made a See also:life-See also:mask (now in the See also:National Museum, Washington) of Lincoln, of whom only one other, by See also:Clark See also:Mills in 1865, was ever made . His son, Douglas See also:Volk (b . 1856), figure and portrait painter, who studied under J . L .

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Paris, became a member of the Society of American Artists in 188o and of the National Academy of Design in 1899 .

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